Immanent Externalities
The Reproduction of Life in Capital
Published on 25. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
979-8-88890-215-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this important book, Rebecca Carson develops the concept of "immanent externalities" to grasp the non-capitalist life processes produced by-and necessary for-capitalist reproduction. Immanent Externalities thus considers the category of reproduction by means of a philosophical re-reading of the three volumes of Marx's Capital. In doing so, the book locates capitalism's fundamental contradiction as that between the reproduction of profit-driven activity and ecologically situated human life, suggesting new orientations for theory and practice today.
Reviews / Votes
";Carson blazes a path with a crucial, rigorous analysis that combines social reproduction theory with the capital-logic approach, proving rather than showing the contradiction between capital and life."-Marina Vishmidt
"Carson's work is an original, and scholarly, investigation of the relation between social reproduction and capital's reproduction of itself." -Christopher J. Arthur, author of The Spector of Capital
"Carson combines erudition and insight, conceptual sophistication and bold engagement, to offer an understanding of the new capitalist logic where the violent clash of extremes: the "life" of financial accumulation and the "life" of bodily reproduction, is pushed to its limits. Her theory will be passionately discussed, for the greatest benefit of scholars and activists"
-Etienne Balibar
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88890-215-8 (9798888902158)
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Person
Rebecca Carson is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. She has published widely on Marx and reproduction, including the articles "Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination" and "Non-capitalist Domination, Rentierism and the Politics of Class".
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination
?Introduction
?1.1?Fictitious Capital
?1.2?Fictitious Capital and Value Form
?1.3?Social Reproduction and Personal Domination
2 Money Form
?Introduction
?2.1?Political Subjectivity and the Monetary Link between Italian Operaismo and Capital Logic
?2.2?Money as Money
3 Fetish Character
?Introduction
?3.1?The Presupposition of Reification and The Money Form
?3.2?Personal and Impersonal Forms of Domination
4 Time and Schemas of Reproduction
?Introduction
?4.1?The Circulation of Capital
?4.2?Interruptions and Differential Temporal Forms within Capital's Reproduction
?4.3?Marx's Presentation of The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuit
?4.4?Marx's Presentation of The Turnover of Capital
?4.5?Marx's Presentation of the Reproduction and Circulation of Total Social Capital
?4.6?The Three Circuits of Capital
?4.7?The Role of the Credit System within Capital's Reproduction
?4.8?Expanded Reproduction
?4.9?A Complete Concept of Money for Understanding Capital's Reproduction
?4.10?Non-capitalist Variables within Capital's Reproduction
?Conclusion
5 Marx's Social Theory of Reproduction
?Introduction
?5.1?Capital's Life Process
?5.2?Intersubjective Structures
?5.3?The Category of Reproduction in Hegel's The Science of Logic
?5.4?Concrete Reproduction of Human Life and Nature
?5.5?Marx's Two Concepts of Life
?Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1 Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination
?Introduction
?1.1?Fictitious Capital
?1.2?Fictitious Capital and Value Form
?1.3?Social Reproduction and Personal Domination
2 Money Form
?Introduction
?2.1?Political Subjectivity and the Monetary Link between Italian Operaismo and Capital Logic
?2.2?Money as Money
3 Fetish Character
?Introduction
?3.1?The Presupposition of Reification and The Money Form
?3.2?Personal and Impersonal Forms of Domination
4 Time and Schemas of Reproduction
?Introduction
?4.1?The Circulation of Capital
?4.2?Interruptions and Differential Temporal Forms within Capital's Reproduction
?4.3?Marx's Presentation of The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuit
?4.4?Marx's Presentation of The Turnover of Capital
?4.5?Marx's Presentation of the Reproduction and Circulation of Total Social Capital
?4.6?The Three Circuits of Capital
?4.7?The Role of the Credit System within Capital's Reproduction
?4.8?Expanded Reproduction
?4.9?A Complete Concept of Money for Understanding Capital's Reproduction
?4.10?Non-capitalist Variables within Capital's Reproduction
?Conclusion
5 Marx's Social Theory of Reproduction
?Introduction
?5.1?Capital's Life Process
?5.2?Intersubjective Structures
?5.3?The Category of Reproduction in Hegel's The Science of Logic
?5.4?Concrete Reproduction of Human Life and Nature
?5.5?Marx's Two Concepts of Life
?Conclusion
Bibliography
Index